Consummate blowhard radio personality Garrison Keillor sees his self-penned script fantasy about the final installment of his wispy radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" realized by Robert Altman.
Just as the word "prairie" connotes Anglo pretension, Altman’s movie bounces between phony characters going through inflated backstage preparations before stepping onto Keillor’s stage at the Fitzgerald Theater.
The troop perform songs before a live audience marveling at Keillor’s billowy enunciation of arcane references like "rhubarb pie."
Barf.
Tommy Lee Jones plays "The Axeman," a Texas real estate mogul anxious to raze the Midwest theater.
Jones is the best thing about this sad footnote to Robert Altman's otherwise impressive career.
Rated PG-13. 105 mins.
